Turtle Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. ~ george santayana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 well, here are some of my personal favorite quotes.... of myself (including that one, these are all from last couple of weeks)i have, perhaps, underestimated my ability to underestimate myselfbeing smart is just not my fortei'm doing stuff, and also some things, but mostly stuff, yes, definitely more stuffchocolate fudge brownie, dammiti seem to be a bit immature this morning.... and the rest of my lifelisten, you cant answer a question with a question, especially if that question was an answer to your question to me originallybooks? i dont need books, i am perfectly capable with coming up with great quotes myself, thank youmy philosophy on life is this: ... *3 hours later* ... anyways, so that's a small bit of my philosophy on things, if you ever have more time, or are anywhere that bored again, i'd love to continue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 as long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ~ voltaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Our original mission was to turn people into Christians. This has changed a bit. Today we have to consider turning Christians into humans. - Johan Degenaar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougF Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 This is an old fav of mine, not sure where it originates from but being a Surveyor in Florida it always hit home with me.. when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's easy to forget that the initial objective was to drain the swamp. (had to use a Turtle as we have no Gators?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 "We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors." ~Alan Moore ~modest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 well it took 10 years and 100 million dollars to build this computer to analize all this data.... only to find out that it's just entropy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Life is the dash on your grave marker between two dates. DougF 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 of comfort no man speak.let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs,make dust our paper, and with rainy eyeswrite sorrow on the bosom of the earth.let's choose executors and talk of wills. ~ William Shakespeare ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 "This sentence, which has thirty-two words, would like to inform its readers that this is the second time that it has expressed itself, and therefore can be said to be quoting itself." ~~This sentence, which has thirty-two words, would like to inform its readers that this is the second time that it has expressed itself, and therefore can be said to be quoting itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted February 26, 2010 Report Share Posted February 26, 2010 "I desperately sought a way for not mentioning pink elephants in this sentence, but to no avail." ~H. Reddmann (alt.fan.hofstadter) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldcreation Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 “Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”Carlos Santana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougF Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pamela Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. k. gibran Turtle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 :coffee_n_pc: morning without you is a dwindled dawn. ~ emily dickinson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldcreation Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 "All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory." Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turtle Posted March 7, 2010 Report Share Posted March 7, 2010 illusion is the first of the pleasures. ~ voltaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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